Is Iraq on the verge of another refugee crisis? Or worse?
The US faces more tough choices to prevent a repeat of the 1991 humanitarian disaster in Iraq.
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The US faces more tough choices to prevent a repeat of the 1991 humanitarian disaster in Iraq.
Minority Yazidis in Iraq are reportedly buried alive as the US steps up airstrikes against the Islamic State, which declares ‘caliphate’ in the region.
Ali Khedery, a former American official in Iraq, Rosa Burc, a Yezidi and the head of the Kurdish society at SOAS, and Zuhair Al-Naher, a spokesman for the ruling Shia party in Iraq, debate.
You don’t expect LOL moments from Isis – the extremists who declared an Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. But the group’s propaganda message is not all about death and jihad.
Islamic State insurgents capture two northern Iraqi towns and an oil field in their first major victory over Kurdish fighters, according to witnesses.
Militants from the Islamic State have embarked on a campaign of religious destruction in the “caliphate”, erasing shrines and mosques connected to the Shia Muslim and Christian faiths.
As the news channels focused on violence in Gaza and the tragedy of MH17, what else happened? Channel 4 News finds out.
“Punishment for practising prostitution” says graffiti, as 33 people including 29 women are killed in an attack on a suspected brothel in Zayounah, a mixed Sunni-Shia neighbourhood of Baghdad.
Religious leaders call on British Muslims not to go to Syria or Iraq for jihad, amid rising fears of radicalisation in the conflicts which could spread across the globe.
With Baghdad battling Isis militants, will Iraqi Kurds finally achieve the goal of an independent Kurdish state?
Isis fighters in Iraq have declared themselves masters of a new caliphate. But their vision of a medieval-style religious state is based on false view of early Islamic history, according to experts.
After the killings of three Israeli teenagers, Binyamin Netanyahu says “Hamas will pay”, while Hamas says an attack by Israel “will open the gates of hell”. So what happens next?
Iraqi troops battle to dislodge an al-Qaeda splinter group from the city of Tikrit after its leader was declared caliph of a new Islamic state across the Syria-Iraq border.
Osama bin Laden’s dream is declared a reality, as the Islamic caliphate is announced by the militants of Isis today, who also demand all other jihadi groups pledge allegiance.
The US military says it has deployed armed manned and unmanned aircraft over Iraq to protect its soldiers, and may consider targeting “high value individuals”.